Leading people
the stickiness, indicators and solutions of the messiness of interpersonal dynamics
Leading people
Leadership: channeling frustration or negativity prompt-
It’s called “I like, I wish, I wonder, what’s next?”
Here’s how it works:
I like → Start with a compliment. “I like how much everyone on this team cares.”
I wish → Reframe the energy. “I wish there was a way we could channel that into moving the needle on the problem.”
I wonder → Open the floor.
Her impact was immediate. Lauren Messier ’25, who is pursuing a professional women’s hockey career following graduation in June, says Crowell transformed the team.
“She came into a pretty broken group of girls with no direction. We had little motivation, and she just lit a spark for us and showed us which direction we wanted to go, and helped us
... See moreA Blessing for Our Anger
As we seek to learn from the wisdom our anger has to teach us, Brian McLaren offers this prayer of blessing:
May you be blessed to see in your anger, not just a danger, but an opportunity. May you be blessed to see in your anger a window into what you love. May you be blessed to see in your anger a pathway into sadness. And... See more
As we seek to learn from the wisdom our anger has to teach us, Brian McLaren offers this prayer of blessing:
May you be blessed to see in your anger, not just a danger, but an opportunity. May you be blessed to see in your anger a window into what you love. May you be blessed to see in your anger a pathway into sadness. And... See more
All things cry for forgiveness in their imperfection, their incompleteness, their woundedness, their constant movement toward death. Mere rage or resentment will not change any of these realities.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
Darkness is a mentor of what it means to carry the light we ourselves have brought to blaze into the unknown parts of life so that others may also see and take hope.
—Joan Chittister
—Joan Chittister
For SEEA staff in these times
Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
What you do may seem insignificant but it’s very important you do it. Gandhi.
Paraphrased I think
Homeboy Industries were the following: 1) Everyone is unshakably good (no exceptions) and 2) We belong to each other (no exceptions
Good starting belief system re other people
This Larry Winget quote reminds me (shane Parrish) of something I say often, “don't tell me your priorities, show me your calendar.”
“It’s not that we don’t have time. It’s that we don’t have time for the things that are really important. There’s always enough time to do what’s really important, but we get caught up doing things that aren’t
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